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What are functional components in React

What are functional components in React

From the course: Building UI Components with Storybook: Master React Components and UI Design with Storybook for Better Efficiency

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What are functional components in React

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I hope you have some delicious coffee. I'm drinking this fantastic house blend from down the street at this coffee shop. I just don't know what they do to that house blend. It really lightens up my morning. Things are starting to heat up. What do we have? Well, what we should have, what you should have is your local host running, and a basic sense of how Create React app has managed to get this local build running. We don't actually know how to program in React itself though. So that's the next step. Now that we understand what it takes to get a project started in React, what about the actual programming? How can we develop code? I left you on a cliffhanger. I said, hey, this app.js, well, it's a function that essentially is a component function. Notice how it's not a class, It's not an object of information that we blueprint into a component. Preferred method is to use pure functions that return what we call JSX. That's where I left you in the last lesson at the end. I don't know if…

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